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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

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